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How I’m adapting Jacques Ranciere’s “The Ignorant Schoolmaster“ into the Curriculum.
Ranciere’s “The Ignorant Schoolmaster” (1987) is a seminal work in the field of education and has been widely discussed and debated within the realm of game studies. The…
10 YEARS AFTER THE BOY WITH SEASHELL TEETH AND THE GIRL WITH FEATHERS IN HER HAIR
For better or worse, all things come to an end… as I wrap up my first collection of tales, all of which surround the dynamic duo Birdgirl and…
SPRING READING: FROM STRANGE WORLDS TO LIFE BETWEEN WORDS
Be mindful of books in translation and Make time for reading this spring. The world will thank you. I would love to hear your recommendations!
Kindle-Up Some Savvy Reading Habits This Year: Is the Kindle A Reader’s Best Friend, or Achilles Heel?
The Amazon Kindle is a great tool for students who want to improve their reading and studying skills.
Homestuck Fans: Media Theory and the Fans that became Home-Stuck, Igniting a Shift in the Zeitgeist
One of the most striking aspects of Homestuck is its massive and dedicated fanbase. The comic’s interactive elements and its use of internet culture references have helped to…
Let’s Stock Up on Sharpie and Elmer’s: Confessions of a Broke Grad Student High on Amazon Discounts
I am a huge fan of the Elmer’s and Sharpie brands, and I am thrilled to see that Amazon is offering some great discounts on these products. As…
Future-Proofing Instructional Design and Game Development: Q&A
For example, a handful of instructional design systems that could be used to benefit a game development firm that needs assistance with learning soft skills. Here we have…
This love life of ours
What have you learned in your life about love? To put it plainly: Love is a wild, untamed thing It flows like rivers, it sings like birds on…
CFP CARGC: Global Media Studies 2023 (USA)
Call for papers: Doing Global Media Studies: Theories, Practices, Reflections, CARGC symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, …CFP CARGC: Global Media Studies 2023 (USA)
It’s the Apocalypse… Again: Fandom and Fantasy in HBO’s “The Last of Us”
[[A critical analysis on the works of various apocalypse stories, including the new HBO series The Last of Us.]] The apocalypse story is a popular genre in media,…
A Reader Responds to Persona 5: Gaming as a Rite and Site of Passage (New Series on Meta-Psychology, Social Cognition, and Individuation)
In Persona 5, the main characters are a group of high school students who discover that they possess the power to enter a parallel world called the “Metaverse,”…
The University of Missouri: the Acceptance Letter Arrives. Open it? Burn and Hide?
I am thrilled to announce that I have been accepted into the University of Missouri’s Masters Program in Instructional Design and Learning Technologies! This opportunity is a dream…
Approaching The Last Airbender as a Media Scholar
What do Michael Foucault and Avatar: The Last Airbender have in common? Me! Doing media studies, thinking about it too much, and ontological linguistics. What am I even…
Persona 5 and Cognitive Estrangement – a Detached Enchantment
Persona 5 is a role-playing video game developed by Atlus that was released in 2016. The game follows a group of high school students who are struggling with…
Monday Mythic Storytime: The Fox and the Found
Ah, you wish to hear a tale of the wily fox, do you? A creature of cunning and guile, who outwits all those who dare to cross its…
FLCL Retrospective: The Hero’s (Horny) Journey
FLCL, oh gimme that foo-ri coo-ri. The early 2000’s found me sneaking into my mom’s tv room to catch Adult Swim’s broadcast of a bizarre six-episode… what I…
フリクリと赤いシダが育つ場所: A comparative reading between FLCL and Where the Red Fern Grows, coming of age between worlds.
FLCL is a Japanese anime series that follows the story of Naota Nandaba, a young boy who is struggling to come to terms with his own identity and…
The Pixar Storytelling Process
Pixar films tell great stories. Toy Story. Finding Nemo. WALL-E. Up. These and other films have together grossed $ billions and won many awards. For example, WALL-E, one of…
Creating a “Matter-verse” for Asean fandom communities with guest-host D.A. Attamimi
4 min read Topics Influencers, KOLs Metaverse Asia (general region) Japan Cultural influences & values A study on fandoms in Asean, plus Japan, delves into what matters for…
Multiverse Role-Playing Games as an Educational Discipline
The article discusses the effects of using RPGs in order to submerge yourself in the multiverse and learn through risks and overcome trials. In my …Multiverse Role-Playing Games…
Critical Thinking: What is it to be a Critical Thinker?
How and why of critical thinking? We often urge others to think critically. What does that really mean? How can we think critically? This essay presents a general…
From Ulysses to Knausgaard: Time to Read That 500+ Page Novel
They’re long term investments to be sure but among the most enriching choices we’ll ever make. From my years-long commitment to Knausgaard’s monumental sextet “My Struggle” to the…
GAMES: AGENCY AS ART: A Reader’s Guide
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Currently Seeking a Crew: SWTOR
Seeking a crew. Comment with interest!
Book Announcement: The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity
The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity Edited By Ayelet Zohar, Alison J. Miller This volume examines the visual …Book Announcement: The Visual Culture…
Book Announcement: The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity
The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity Edited By Ayelet Zohar, Alison J. Miller This volume examines the visual …Book Announcement: The Visual Culture…
Travels and Travails in Translation – Aesop’s Fables from Greek to Japanese to English
Peacock and Crane クジャク が ツル を バカ に して、はね の いろ を けなしました。「わたし は きんいろ の はね で、こんな に きれい だけれど、 あなた と きたら つばさ の どこ を…
Travels and Travails in Translation – Aesop’s Fables from Greek to Japanese to English
Peacock and Crane クジャク が ツル を バカ に して、はね の いろ を けなしました。「わたし は きんいろ の はね で、こんな に きれい だけれど、 あなた と きたら つばさ の どこ を…
Poem: Rambling Without Destination, or Paradise Lost (Patron Content)
I bit into an anchovy. Brine dissolved across my tongue. Salt and sea marrying into the myriad effervescence of it all. The wine settling deep within my belly,…
Poem: Rambling Without Destination, or Paradise Lost (Patron Content)
I bit into an anchovy. Brine dissolved across my tongue. Salt and sea marrying into the myriad effervescence of it all. The wine settling deep within my belly,…
Demons Out, Fortune In. It’s Setsubun (節分): Bean Scattering, Bad Fortunes & Demon Slaying
We’re going to throw our beans, embrace this spring. Out, out with you Oni! Come, come good things. Oh, and get boosted. Seriously.
Demons Out, Fortune In. It’s Setsubun (節分): Bean Scattering, Bad Fortunes & Demon Slaying
We’re going to throw our beans, embrace this spring. Out, out with you Oni! Come, come good things. Oh, and get boosted. Seriously.
AN INVITATION TO A BRAVE SPACE
Together we will create brave spaceBecause there is no such thing as a “safe space”We exist in the real worldWe all carry scars and we have all caused…
AN INVITATION TO A BRAVE SPACE
Together we will create brave spaceBecause there is no such thing as a “safe space”We exist in the real worldWe all carry scars and we have all caused…
Book Announcement: Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijro Suga Reader
Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijiro Suga Reader Edited by Doug Slaymaker This volume of essays and translations analyzes the prodigious and wide…Book Announcement: Wild Lines and…
Book Announcement: Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijro Suga Reader
Wild Lines and Poetic Travels: A Keijiro Suga Reader Edited by Doug Slaymaker This volume of essays and translations analyzes the prodigious and wide…Book Announcement: Wild Lines and…
Invocation (Poem): Will you embark upon our honeyed rendezvous?
Will you embark upon our honeyed rendezvous? Will you drink this strange brew? Inhale the perfumery of day glow grain? Heed the invitation East?
Emerging Translator Mentorship Program (deadline 11/30)
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is offering an Emerging Translator Mentorship Program for 2022, the deadline for which is …Emerging Translator Mentorship Program (deadline 11/3…
Autumn Splinters the Moon – A Haiku
Happy Autumn. Happy Fall. Happy Hop-tu-Naa! Happy Harvest. Happy Samhain. There is something stirring in the airs of Autumn. Gets me every year. To celebrate the skies of…
Weekend Wonderings 9.9.21
Here’s something you don’t see everyday. A Resource for the uncanny. An alternative for the humdrum scuzz of your everyday Buzz. Feed the beast no more. Here’s the…
This is Happening! Creating Folklore, Mythology, & Literary Translations from East Asia + Gilman Announcement
Greetings & ようこそ It is my immense pleasure to welcome you to the airy, the eerie, the all-at-once sensual, hysterical, and downright phenomenal Floating World of East Asian literature Oh,…
9 Short Stories by Egyptian Women, in Translation
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An Open Letter On the Road Less Traveled : A Personal Essay on the Path of Most Resistance and the Adventure That is Life.
As our world grows increasingly smaller it’s easier than ever to seek refuge in the comfort of familiar places. Yet, we live in a time when thoughts and…
The Brilliant Naja Ferjan on the importance and the art of developing a bilingual mind.
Among my all-time favorite Tedx Talks, Ramirez translates the value maintaining your presence in the world while staying abreast of cultural transitions. The world is ever changing, and…
Scribes and Sake: Kasa-Jizo (かなじぞ)
Reading fairytales within the origin language. Contextual agreements between time and place, emotions and aesthetics. We might localize our hearts out but truth be told we humans are…
Ramen Egg (味付け玉子): Hidden Secrets of the perfectly runny, not-too-gooey Ajitsuke Tamago
Oh the pleasures of taste come in myriad ways. The foods and the paths they take, swirling about our world in a bath of culture, both yeast and…
ビルマの竪琴 – Plucking the Burmese Harp: A Film Review
Director Kon Ichikawa plucks the fruits of Eastern spirituality throughout a film that at once condemns the horrors of war and celebrates the spontaneity of life.